The SSA announced a significant operational change this week that will reshape how disability benefit eligibility is reviewed across the United States. The agency confirmed that medical Continuing ...

Veterans Guardian breaks down why the VA disability backlog persists and how veterans can bypass delays through strategic filing, nexus letters, and expert guidance to secure the benefits they've ...

The department is planning to broaden its machine learning-powered Automated Decision Support tool to cover more types of claims.

A Marine Corps veteran rated 70% for post-traumatic stress disorder didn't know his sleep apnea counted as a separate disability. An Army veteran with a service-connected back injury never filed for ...

With six weeks still left to go in fiscal 2025, the Veterans Affairs Department announced Wednesday the agency has already processed a single-year record of 2,524,115 veteran disability compensation ...

For a couple of different reasons, a claim for Social Security disability benefits may be reviewed. One is what the Social Security Administration calls a "quality assurance review." The other ...

For decades, veterans have waited months, sometimes years, for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to process disability claims. The backlog has been infamous, with hundreds of thousands of ...

The Social Security Administration said it has cut its backlog of disability claims by about 30 percent since June 2024.